Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
by Simms Taback
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Victorville, California, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 1999. Jacket has small tear on edge.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Simms Taback. Not Price Clipped.
Synopsis
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is the title of a 1999 book by Simms Taback that won the 2000 Caldecott Medal. The main character is Joseph, a 40-something Jewish farmer, who has a little striped overcoat. When it is old, Joseph makes it into a little jacket and so on until he makes it into a button. Then Joseph loses the button and makes a story out of it. The moral of the story is "you can always make something out of nothing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wordbank Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002557
- Title
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
- Author
- Simms Taback
- Illustrator
- Simms Taback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Date Published
- 1999
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wordbank Books
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Victorville, California
About Wordbank Books
Seller of rare, out-of-print, and odd-ball titles.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...